Lies Quotes - page 24

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! View quote
Arthur Miller
Some books are lies frae end to end. View quote
Robert Burns
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! View quote
John Keats
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities. View quote
Isabel Allende
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. View quote
Asger Jorn
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again.... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. View quote
Asger Jorn
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. View quote
Michael Haneke
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason. View quote
Peter Drucker
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time.... the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought. (Ludwig Boltzmann)
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. View quote
Archimedes
I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. View quote
Johannes Kepler
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. View quote
Franz Kafka
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. View quote
René Descartes
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. (Larry Wall)
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created. View quote
Robert Bridges
The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. View quote
Milan Kundera
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. View quote
Errol Flynn